Hypertext Webster Gateway: "slur"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slur \Slur\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slurred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Slurring}.] [Cf. OE. sloor mud, clay, Icel. sl?ra, slo?ra,
to trail or drag one's self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to
train, to drag, to do negligently and slovenly, D. sloor,
sloerie, a sluttish girl.]
1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
--Cudworth.
2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson.
3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over
lightly or with little notice.
With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his
crimes. --Dryden.
4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]
To slur men of what they fought for. --Hudibras.
5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to
connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
--Busby.
7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to
mackle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slur \Slur\, n.
1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a
stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. ``Gaining
to his name a lasting slur.'' --South.
2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]
3. (Mus.) A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], connecting
notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in
one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one
stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the
sinkers successively by passing over them.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
slur
n 1: (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played
legato
2: a disparaging remark [syn: {aspersion}]
3: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
{smudge}, {spot}, {blot}, {daub}, {smear}, {smirch}]
v 1: play smoothly or legato; of musical passages
2: speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your
comments are slurring your co-workers"
3: utter indistinctly
4: become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two
theories blurred" [syn: {blur}, {dim}] [ant: {focus}]
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